A day after general manager Jim Rutherford confirmed a full compliment of Penguins are expected to be going to Toronto, Sidney Crosby returned to the ice.
Crosby suffered some sort of discomfort during Saturday’s scrimmage and left the simulated game early and hasn’t been on the ice since. The Penguins are amping up their preparations with a practice today, and then trying to replicate full game days tomorrow on Thursday (with a third intra-squad scrimmage scheduled for 7:00pm) and then another at noon on Saturday. After that, Phase 3 preparations in Pittsburgh will pretty much be done.